Head of Property

6 months ago

Dorchester, United Kingdom Care Dorset Limited Full time

“We are **people focused**. We are **genuine**. We have **integrity**. We will **develop**. We are a **team**.”

These values define our personality. They are our statement about what we stand for and what we believe in, and they are the basis behind the decisions we make every single day. They are the Care Dorset way.

Care Dorset’s vision is “A world where people can thrive”. This vision conveys our ambition to have a society in which individuals have the conditions, opportunities, and support to lead fulfilling, successful and meaningful lives. We have an ambitious five-year strategy focused on working towards achieving this vision.
- **Please note - this is a hybrid role. There will be an element of working from home, as well as a requirement to work from Blandford and travel to various locations across Dorset. **_

**The role**:
We have an extensive portfolio of buildings and support people with tenancies from registered social landlords. We are also planning to acquire additional buildings as we grow our business. We have now reached a point where we need to grow and professionalise our property, assets, and facilities management team.

We are seeking to recruit a senior manager to bring together all our building and property functions including relationship management of registered social landlords.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Take responsibility for a team of up to five people including facilities management, health and safety, contract management, relationship management with registered social landlords and a small administration function.
- Manage property-related day-to-day operations of sites, ensuring adherence to safety protocols and project timelines.
- Act as the strategic leader for property and recognised expert within Care Dorset.
- Lead the coordination with subcontractors, suppliers, and internal teams to ensure efficient workflow and quality control of development inspections, dealing with planned and reactive maintenance issues, liaising with and instructing contractors regarding works required etc. Manage all responsive building maintenance works.
- Monitor project progress, resolve issues, and communicate updates to stakeholders.
- Implement best practices in property management to optimise efficiency and minimise risks.
- Maintain accurate documentation, including progress reports and regulatory documentation, such as fire safety.
- Prioritise the allocation of property maintenance budgets across the portfolio to ensure that property assets remain safe and fit for purpose.
- Take responsibility for Care Dorset’s property portfolio, ensuring properties meet health and safety standards and arranging risk assessments. Deal with leaseholder queries and maintain strong relationships.
- Coordinate major works.
- **This job description is not exhaustive and reflects the type and range of tasks, responsibilities and outcomes associated with the role.**_

**Person specification**

**Must have**:

- Extensive social care experience
- Evidence of successfully working in a senior management role in a relevant property environment (within a large and complex organisation with comparable scope, responsibilities, budget and resources).
- In depth knowledge of promoting, preserving, and protecting the health, safety and wellbeing of colleagues, people we support, contractors and partners; ensuring that the provisions of all relevant legislation are achieved, such as the Health and Safety at Work Act.
- Evidence of successful partnership development or delivery through partnerships including an ability to work with local partners.

**Skills, abilities and knowledge**:

- Excellent management and leadership skills, which encourage commitment from others that promote a positive and motivated organisational culture to harness the strengths and talents of colleagues at all levels.
- Ability to establish and sustain positive relationships that generate confidence, ability and trust of directors, senior stakeholders, colleagues, partners and the wider community.
- Ability to influence outcomes through reasoning, persuasion and tact at all levels within the organisation.
- Strong financial and budgetary awareness with the ability to manage finance and wider resources within a strong performance management culture.
- Able to use project management disciplines to lead or contribute to project work.

**Good to have**:

- A relevant higher professional qualification or other relevant industry experience.
- Previous experience in property and project management.
- Previous experience in balancing priorities.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £43,837.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company car
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Please provide some information about your previous experience of working in a properties management role.

**Experie

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